Cowboy Mouth: Go! (2014)

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Cowboy Mouth drummer/lead vocalist Fred LeBlanc has been quoted as saying, "If the Neville Brothers and the Clash had a baby, it would be Cowboy Mouth." Fans have described a Cowboy Mouth performance as a Southern gospel revival sans the religion. In many ways for many of the band's fans, Cowboy Mouth is a religion. As anyone who has seen a Cowboy Mouth concert can attest, there is a lot of southern preacher in LeBlanc's stage banter. Cake Magazine once described a Cowboy Mouth performance thusly, ..."on a bad night they'll tear the roof off the joint and on a good night, they'll save your soul."

Two-and-a-half decades into its career, Cowboy Mouth continues to deliver the goods. With Go!, the New Orleans-based band's 10th album, LeBlanc along with bassist Casandra Faulconer, guitarist Matt Jones, and co-founding guitarist John Thomas Griffith lay down a musical gumbo of styles (electric blues, modern rock, rockabilly, pop, punk and rock 'n' roll with a touch of funk) that could have only have been incubated in the Crescent City.

Featuring eleven new songs, the CD is a ferocious high-octane collection that will revive a tired soul. Highlights include: the title track with its staccato beat and LeBlanc's breakneck paced vocals, the CD's single "Do You Wanna Do It Right Now" (a sing-a-long tune whose lyrics leave little to the imagination), the rocking "My Little Secret," the heartfelt "Where's the Rain," "Mardi Gras By Moonlight" (which can best be described as a heavily syncopated tango), "How Would You Feel" and "Dare."

Go! is a fun collection of rootsy, upbeat, catchy and energetic tunes. It's an exciting album that is made to be played loud.

Track Listing: Go; Do You Wanna Do It Right Now; My Little Secret; Where's the Rain; Too Much Work; Mardi Gras By Moonlight; Song of the Summer; How Would You Feel; Letting Me Believe; Dare; Watch the Water.